Free Range Preacher on Prayer

When we believe the word of God, it permeates everything! Everything includes, oddly enough, everything. Even every season we go through. In today's devotional, we hear some of the fallback verses, which help me when I need a retreat with my God. I need to move away from the fray and regain strength for the next battle and seek my fallback place. If you have some of these passages, we would love t...

You catch me musing on this one; as I was recording, it occurred to me the utter height of hypocrisy is found in someone fasting to be seen by men. If fasting, in essence, is carrying such a burden on our hearts that for a time, nothing, not even our daily bread, is more important than prayer, the pinnacle of hypocrisy it seems to me to be is fake fasting, so others will see how pious we are. Jesu...

There are other times when our sorrow for our sins burst forth, remember like, Yahweh-Perazim, breaking through in victory, we are open and laid bare before the cross in repentance. The good news is the miraculous news. As a matter of fact is, we are not alone, and our explosive, humbling repentance and deep sorrow are evidence of our salvation. Why, why do we sin and sin and then cry out this way...

The host is weak, faltering, and wholly inadequate for the task, but the word of God is none of those. The call for the children of God to forgive is serious, and the Bible uses: Serious Command as witnessed by: Commands Matthew 6:14 Mark 11:25 Allusions: Matthew 5:43-45 Philippians 2:3ff Exhortations: Ephesians 4:29-32 Romans 13 Serious Discipline: David was disciplined through Embarrassment; 2 S...

Glory to God for sharpening our prayers to His focus. When praying, "And take vengeance for me on my persecutors." I have learned from my soul to pray, "Lord Jesus, take vengeance by pouring out your wrath at the cross for my "persecutors-enemies.'" Visit them with Thy salvation. It is freeing to know we can pray and glory in the justice of God in tune with the spirit of this age of the church, pl...

There is excellent news. As you are starting, struggling, or wrestling with God in prayer, you can expect at times to have great faith and at times to have significant doubt, but the great news is your faith is not the deciding factor in your answers, but the God in whom you believe. Pray on in faith and doubt. God will reveal Himself to you, and you will know the abundant life right here right no...

I am overjoyed at the word of God and the Holy Spirit of God who reveals to us what we need when we need it. 2022, beginning October of 2021, will be a year (for me at least) of celebration of all the glorious ways Father, Son, and Holy Ghost have broken through in my life and the life of my beloved. Thank You, Jesus, for making me see that Thou are the God who bursts forth in victory after years...

One of my favorite devotional thoughts comes from: 2 Timothy 1:12 For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. Paul knew God so intimately, he was convinced in God’s care of everything he entrusted to Him. Esther proves an apt illustration of the comfort in...

A reminder that eternal life starts now and is execrated through prayer after salvation. Prayer, communion with Almighty God, our Savior, can be the sweetest, most intimate time of your day. "And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His Word and trust His grace, I'll cast on Him my every care, And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!" (From the Hymn, "Sweet Hour of Prayer." Richard’s introducti...

We review how the podcast got its name, the aim of the podcast, and our prayers for the podcast. Originally published 08.24.2019 Richard’s introduction is worth the listen! "The consideration of these things has long engaged me to attend to this matter, with the utmost diligence and care, and exactness of search and inquiry, that I have been capable of. It is a subject on which my mind has been pe...

There is none righteous, no not one. So says the word of God. We do God a dishonor and ourselves a disservice when we look upon our great cloud of witnesses, minimize their sins while over-inflating their earthly life with righteous deeds born from their flesh. We know from our own hurts and pains the depths of sorrow born of our circumstances, the depths of Jacob's fear and brokenness. We then un...

A problematic episode for the Free Range Preacher. Every sincere person who speaks forth the word of God in any context understands we are wholly inadequate to teach the word of God. Some moments are punctuated by the Holy Ghost, as the teacher speaks to themself first. So it is in this episode. Yet as I say that, if I had the power, I would make every believer develop a sincere, Biblical, dynamic...

Old-time baseball players, the song "That's Life," and Sherlock help explain why prayer is essential for God's children to pray about everything so we can give God the highest glory and enjoy Him to the utmost. "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. John 17:3 Q. 1. What is the chief end of man? A. Man's chief end is to glorify G...

The prayer of Hannah in 1 Samuel 2 is pure worship. As was her vow, she has delivered Samuel to the temple of God, to the care of Eli, the high priest. Her son, a Nazarite, was now in God's hands for rearing, and he was dedicated to the purpose of Almighty God. Hannah cried out in her barrenness for a son. She trusted the Lord for Samuel; now, she was entrusting his future to the God who opened he...

Published January 2019 There are two central principles we examine in this edited and enhanced republishing of a devotional on thanksgiving: First, no matter where we are in our earthly pilgrimage, joy in victory or sorrow in our trials, our gratitude rests in… Luke 10:20 you. “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in hea...

We draw closer to God because he works in our past, present, and future for our good and for His eternal glory. Published 12.04.2018 Over the years, I have learned a little about podcasting, and some of the lingo, as again, we said in the olden days, one of them is rough cut, which are episodes with little to no editing. At the inception of the Free Range Preacher on Prayer podcast, all our episod...

Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! Thy wings shall my petition bear. To Him whose truth and faithfulness Engage the waiting soul to bless. And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His Word and trust His grace, I'll cast on Him my every care, And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer! I commend you to the free hour of prayer. If you would do me a kindness, please commend me to the sweet h...

Warning Long Episode. Nothing to fear; take a break and meditate on these marks: Prayerlessness…20:26 Pride…………………33:36 Discouragement..to the end. Using the Ronna pandemic over the last few months, we outline three possible hindrances to our prayer lives. Prayerlessness due to our desire to know exactly how to pray. Pride in our Prayers. Discouragement in our Prayers. We may feel: 2 Corinthians 4...

R.C. Sproul was right. What Do Ya Know about that? In today’s episode, we will look at the question, does prayer change things? Whether does or not, our call is to pray, and our new inner man longs for communion with our Savior. However, as it turns out, from Scripture, God does use our prayers to chance circumstances. New time, we will look at a pitfall or two of knowing our prayers are effective...

The delight in prayer is a two-way delight. Not only do we delight in the presence of God in our prayers, but He takes pleasure in hearing from His children, the redeemed. We will see this through: Two personal illustrations of the delight of a father. One of the Reasons Christ endured the cross. Our invitation to prayer. Our standing before God. God's word on God's perspective on hearing from His...

In 1832 Robert Murray M'Cheyne wrote, Mind quite unfitted for devotion. Prayerless prayer. We all have those times when God seems distant from us for a variety of reasons, and our minds are unfit for devotion, and our prayers are dry and seem hallow. They are not; the dryer the land, the more our inner man seeks the living waters give by Christ. Please, do not let dry and weary land keep you from...

You may have noticed the phrase in Matthew 6:13; [For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.]’, is in brackets. I know you know this, but when we find a New Testament verse or passage in brackets or in some translations included as a footnote, it means said passage is not included in the earlier manuscripts of the New Testament. In this episode, we explore how we should...

Is laid for your faith in His excellent word! What more can He say than to you He hath said— To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? "The soul that on Jesus doth lean for repose, I will not, I will not, desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake." Jesus told us: Matthew 5:1-10 1 And when He saw the multitudes, He went up on the...

"When through the deep waters I call thee to go, The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow; For I will be with thee thy trouble to bless, And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress." Joseph Genesis 50:20 20 "And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. David 2 Samuel 14:25-26 25 And the king said to Za...

God is THE person; all personhood came from God, and as we are created in His image: We know He has a plan, and He has a purpose for all of His creation. This is why we know, as witnessed by the Holy Spirit in us, the deep and great love of God, and Romans 8:28-30 28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His pur...